Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will go through with what I have started. I purchased the county and state officials involved in this investigation in open market. I paid an excessive price for them. Afterward they railroaded me to prison. Now I am going to turn them over to the state of Indiana for a while...
...Persons telephoning the State Lodge are not always successful in establishing personal communication with the President or Mrs. Coolidge. But Miss Angie Conrad of Rapid City never has trouble in securing the attention of Mrs. Coolidge. Miss Conrad is an employee of the meat market at which Mrs. Coolidge buys provisions. And when Lodge attendants answer the telephone and hear that "Schuster's Meat Market" is talking, they know that the call should be put through. With Miss Ellen Riley,. White House housekeeper, still on sick leave, Mrs. Coolidge has been doing the presidential family shopping...
...hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats. Undoubtedly, it lacks refinement and many another virtue. "Honestly, Tex," says a stage policeman along in the second act, "don't you think virtue pays?" To which the Soul of Candor replies with a tolerant shrug, "Sure, if you got a market for it, sure it pays...
...Committee on German reparations. He has been president of the Reichsbank since 1924. He is a stern man to deal with, imperturbable and ruthless in carrying out a fiscal program. Only seven weeks ago, when German speculators were running wild, he passed put instructions that loans to Berlin stock market operators be instantly reduced by onefourth. There was panic on the Berlin Bourse (TIME...
...Paris, police agents found two old women living in great iron steam-boilers discarded by a factory. Each had a boiler-room 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, 4 ft. high, equipped with stove and, for shelving, boxes. Their food they got by diligent search of the public market garbage buckets. No wastrels, no disturbers of the public peace, the two old beldams were permitted to continue peacefully in their squalor...